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Protest Outside the ‘House of the Lord’ Church in Brooklyn

by Delectable ( 122 Comments › )
Filed under Anti-semitism, Communism, Gaza, Islamists, Israel, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Turkey at June 18th, 2010 - 2:00 pm

Last night I attended a protest outside where certain Gaza ‘flotilla’ (aka terror armada) passengers were speaking in Brooklyn, at the House of the Lord Church in Brooklyn. It should be noted that this ‘church’ actually believes in liberation theology, and claims that Jesus was an African, rather than Jewish.

Anyway, back to this protest. Here are pictures of the event. This is my favorite picture of the protest.

Protest

About 40 people of mixed background came to the protest in Brooklyn, on Atlantic Avenue. It should be noted that the Blind Sheikh was based out of the Masjid al-Farooq Mosque, at 554 Atlantic Avenue. This ‘church’ was at 415 Atlantic Avenue. So this protest occurred deep in the heart of Radical Islam.

In any case, the pro-jihadis had this clown singing ‘peace’ songs. It was quasi-comical. Of course, I also was handed the newspaper of the Communist Worker’s Party. Red/Green Alliance strikes again.

Clown

Some of the protesters (i.e., the good guys) started singing “We Con the World” while wearing clown wigs, which is the song popularized by the group Latma. It was quite appropos.

Some observations of the event:

  • A person running for City Council happened to be half a block from the ‘flotilla’ event. I asked him if he was pro-Israel, and he said yes. I then asked him if he backed Israel specifically in the ‘flotilla’ bruhaha, and he said “Well, it is complicated.” And then he went into a long story. I replied that it is not complicated at all and it is about Israel’s right to self defense. I then informed this would-be City Councilman (a Dem, of course), that I will not support him.
  • There was someone from Brazilian TV there, and I told him on camera that what I am most troubled by is language desecration, and I fear for the future over the misuse and defamation of the word “peace.” I told the same to a Columbia School of Journalism reporter.
  • More evidence of the red/green alliance – al-Awda NY sponsored this event, and you had communists handing out the Communist Worker’s Party newspaper. Al-Awda is linked to extremely unsavory jihad groups, as documented here.
  • I saw Turkish flags at this event. Never before have Turkish flags flown at such pro-jihad events. This is an extremely troubling trend.
  • At the event, the so-called ‘peace activists’ were screaming that Zionism is racism.

Overall, it is my considered opinion that peace is not possible while we buy into these false narratives, and claim that those who wish for the destruction of another are ‘peaceful.’ We must fight the war on the English language that the press has bought into, hook, line, and sinker.

And on a final note, I want to say that the pro-jihadis were really…pathetic. I mean, a tired, sad-looking man, singing a hippy-dippy ‘peace’ song, while wearing a jihad scarf? Come on! The only tragedy of this all is that we take these people seriously, and actually treat them like they have a substantial opinion, rather than the farces that they are.

Once we cut off the teat of the Western largesse to our jihadi adversaries, and stop treating the jihadis and their sympathizers as people worth listening to, real peace is possible.

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Wilders: “The Netherlands chose more security, less crime, less immigration and less Islam.”

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 73 Comments › )
Filed under Dhimmitude, Europe, Geert Wilders, Islamic Invasion, Islamic Terrorism, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Progressives, Terrorism at June 11th, 2010 - 1:30 pm

Bwahahahaha! Heads will be exploding over at Chuckle’s cesspool, starting with the pony-tailed moron that runs the shithole… BTW, don’t you just love it when people, who want to stand up for their country, the rule of law and their way of life, are deemed “far right” by these lib dhimmis, I mean dummies?

Dutch election: Liberals take one-seat lead as far-right party grows in influence

With 88 per cent of the votes counted, published partial results showed the Liberals with 31 and Labour on 30.

But the real victory went to Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom (PVV), which demands an end to immigration from Muslim countries and a ban on new mosques. The PVV took its number of seats from nine in the last parliament to 24, and could hope to enter a coalition government.

The far-right leader with his distinctive shock of fair hair called the result “magnificent”.

“The impossible has happened,” he told a televised party gathering. “We are the biggest winner today. The Netherlands chose more security, less crime, less immigration and less Islam.”

The election ousted Christian Democrat Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende from eight years in office.

The Liberals’ narrow lead gives leader Mark Rutte a mandate to form a coalition and become prime minister, but sticking to his austerity policies could prove tough because he needs at least three other parties to secure a parliamentary majority.

Read the rest here: Dutch election: Liberals take one-seat lead as far-right party grows in influence

And then there’s this:

Far-right election breakthrough shocks Netherlands

The spectacular election breakthrough of the far-right anti-Muslim Party for Freedom shocked the Netherlands on Thursday as two mainstream parties braced for weeks of coalition haggling.

The pro-business Liberal VVD party had 31 seats and the Labour party (PvdA) 30, with 99.6 percent of the vote counted after Wednesday’s election.

But far-right PVV leader Geert Wilders demanded a share of government after his party came third with 24 seats, more than doubling its current nine seats in the 150-member parliament.

“Nobody in The Hague can bypass the PVV anymore,” said Wilders, whose party wants an end to immigration from Muslim countries and a ban on new mosques and the Koran.

“We want to be part of the new government,” declared Wilders, a distinctive figure with a shock of dyed blonde hair who is under 24-hour protection and has to live at secret addresses because of his controversial political stand.

France’s far-right National Front hailed the PVV’s “great success”, while the CMO Dutch Muslim organisation expressed disappointment.

Read it all:
Far-right election breakthrough shocks Netherlands

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Lone Jewish High School Student Faces Down Arab Mob in L.A.

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 200 Comments › )
Filed under Anti-semitism, Democratic Party, Dhimmitude, Gaza, Hamas, Hezballah, Holocaust, Islamic Terrorism, Islamists, Jihad, Judaism, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Palestinians, Progressives, Sharia (Islamic Law) at June 2nd, 2010 - 1:30 pm

Lone Jewish High School Student Faces Down Arab Mob in LA

A loud and angry mob of pro-Arab demonstrators outside the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles on Tuesday became even more enraged when one, lone Jewish high school student with a yarmulke and a large Israeli flag marched fearlessly alongside them.

The young man seemed to be unmoved by the angry curses hurled at him by the American-Arab crowd. Though protected by a line of policemen, it appeared he could be attacked at any moment.

Reporters asked him afterwards about his unusual presence, and he explained, “I came out because I want to defend Israel…They (the soldiers attempting to divert the flotilla ships) were attacked, and they had the right to defend [themselves]. These people [on the boats] were not humanitarians; their ship was armed with knives, batons, and all kinds of things to attack the Israelis with. There is a naval blockade on Gaza, and they [the soldiers] were just doing their job of enforcing it… Hamas is a terrorist organization trying to kill Israelis.”

Asked if he is affiliated with any group, he said, “Just Judaism and Israel, that’s it.”

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This Is Only A Test

by Bunk X ( 350 Comments › )
Filed under Censorship, Dhimmitude, Free Speech, Islamists, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Multiculturalism, Open thread, Political Correctness, Politics, Sharia (Islamic Law) at April 25th, 2010 - 10:30 pm

Fellow Netizens, my friend Cbullitt of Soylent Green alerted me to an internet-wide blog protest in response to the Censorship of the cable cartoon show “South Park.” The image above, with permission from the designer Chris Muir, is scheduled to show up throughout the blogosphere at midnight tonight. Cbullitt wrote:

“I’m not an artist or Cartoonist, but Chris Muir is and Trey Parker and Matt Stone are. And Theo Van Gough was. Muir, whose work you see above, obviously does not ascribe to the dictum displayed in the cowardice of Comedy Central, the EU, and the U.S. Government under the last four administrations, namely: Feeding the crocodile in hopes that it will eat you last.”

To be truthful, I’ve never seen an episode of  “South Park” although I understand its popularity due to its irreverent humor.  The recent imposition of domestic sharia law on the writers of “South Park” for a joke involving the Prophet Muhammed is inexcusable in the Land of the Free and the Home of the First Amendment.

Let’s celebrate our First Amendment Rights before we lose them with an Overnight Open Thread.

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The Panic Room and the Seething Jihadi Art Critics!

by coldwarrior ( 87 Comments › )
Filed under Art, Europe, Free Speech, Islamic Supremacism, Terrorism at March 11th, 2010 - 3:30 pm

The Panic Room, Beware of the Jihadi Art Critic!

Submitted 11MAR2010

With all of the coverage of Jihad Jane, I went looking for the ‘offending art’ that caused this murder plot and fatwas and rewards for the murder of Lars Vilks. Vilks did some drawings of dogs with ‘the Prophet’ Mohamed’s head on them. Apparently, in Sweden they put metal art dogs in the grassy bit in the middle of the roundabout to spruce the joint up, here is wiki’s entry for ’roundabout dogs’ . The Roundabout Dogs even have their own website! Here are some of Lars Vilks’ drawings of his roundabout dogs, for your artistic enjoyment:

Well, these drawings got the Jihadi art world, yet again, all in a tizzie of loud barking of fatwas, death threats, and SEETHING! The seething has become so intense that a new trend among the European Aritists has started.  This trend can be traced all the way back to Mr Rushdie. The Artists who are critiqued and followed by the Jihadi art crowd are building Panic Rooms. I guess those Jihadi art critics just love to track down and hound their artists all hours of the day and night! And it looks like some of the editors and reporters in Swedish papers want to get in on this latest art world trend trend as well. This editorial will fetch a lot of attention from the Jihadi art crowd.

Following alleged plot to murder artist who drew cartoon depicting Prophet Muhammad with body of a dog, Swedish newspapers publish it to take stance for freedom of speech. ‘A threat against him is, in the long term, also a threat against all Swedes,’ one paper says

Look for ‘Panic Room Monthly’ magazine in a shop near you! I would recommend some  furnishings from the Kalashnikov Line and Colt Collection guys. They work with any decor, even Ikea!

Of course there are other works that the Jihadi art crowd has strained at the leash over, Salman Rushdie and Kurt Westergaard come to mind immediately. Artists in America don’t have such friendly and loyal followers or the opportunity to have their very own Panic Room; all that  Andres Serrano got for his ‘Piss Christ’ was a debate over funding by the National Endowment of the Arts, some art reviews, and a few angry protesters. Perhaps if Serrano tries a little harder and does some edgy Mo art, he too can have his very own pack of Jihadi art critics pawing at his door to see his brand new Panic Room!


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Muammar Gaddafi calls for jihad on Swiss after ban on building minarets

by Speranza ( 153 Comments › )
Filed under Dhimmitude, Islamic hypocrisy, Libya, Multiculturalism at February 26th, 2010 - 5:00 am

Well get back to us when we can build churches in Libya, Muammar. The arrogance of these people knows no boundaries.  They make demands and then threats, demands and threats one after the other  – all the while we keep on giving up our freedoms bit by bit.

by Roger Boyes

Muammar Gaddafi has appealed for jihad against Switzerland, long regarded as one of the most peaceful nations in the world.

The Libyan leader’s call for a holy war was, he said, a response to a Swiss referendum in November to ban the construction of minarets on mosques.

It is the low point in a relationship that has been deteriorating since 2008 when Colonel Gaddafi’s son Hannibal was briefly detained in Geneva after allegedly beating his servants.

“Any Muslim in any part of the world who works with Switzerland is an apostate, is against (the Prophet) Muhammad, God and the Koran,” Colonel Gaddafi said at a rally broadcast on television.

He made the speech to mark the Prophet’s birthday, ensuring that many Arabs would take the call seriously.

It was not clear how he wanted Muslims to target Switzerland. “The masses of Muslims must go to all airports in the Islamic world and prevent any Swiss plane landing, to all harbours and prevent any Swiss ships docking,” he said, apparently unaware that Switzerland does not have a merchant navy, or coast.

He has been attempting to demonstrate to the West that he is not at the helm of a rogue state, that it has no nuclear ambitions or contacts with terrorism. He criticised al-Qaeda during his address, calling it a “a psychological disease”. He added: “There is a big difference between terrorism and jihad.”

He made clear that Switzerland, “an infidel, obscene state which is destroying mosques”, was at the very least an ideological enemy.

Read the rest here: Muammar Gaddafi calls for jihad on Swiss after ban on building minarets

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Female Suicide Bombers…

by coldwarrior ( 153 Comments › )
Filed under Islamic Terrorism, Multiculturalism, Terrorism at February 2nd, 2010 - 10:00 am

This background was taken from wiki, it is accurate and is a good place to start this post.

Sunni Muslims, often referred to as Ahl as-Sunnah wa’l-Jamā‘h or Ahl as-Sunnah, are the largest denomination of Islam.

The word Sunni comes from the word sunnah, which means the teachings and actions or examples of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad. Therefore, the term “Sunni” refers to those who follow or maintain the sunnah of the prophet Muhammad. Another etymology proposed by some[who?] is that the word “sunni” comes from a movement “Am-ul-sunnah” started by Mu’awiya.

The Sunni believe that Muhammad did not specifically appoint a successor to lead the Muslim ummah (community) before his death, and after an initial period of confusion, a group of his most prominent companions gathered and elected Abu Bakr Siddique—Muhammad’s close friend and a father-in-law—as the first caliph of Islam. Sunni Muslims regard the first four caliphs—Abu Bakr, `Umar ibn al-Khattāb, Uthman Ibn Affan and Ali ibn Abu Talib—as “al-Khulafā’ur-Rāshidūn” or “The Rightly Guided Caliphs.” Sunnis also believe that the position of caliph may be democratically-chosen, but after the Rashidun, the position turned into a hereditary dynastic rule. After the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1923, there has never been another as widely-recognized caliph in the Muslim world.

Shia Islam (Arabic: شيعة‎ Shī‘ah, sometimes Shi’a or Shi’ite), is the second-largest denomination of Islam. Shia Muslims—though a minority in the Muslim world—constitute the majority of the populations in Azerbaijan, Bahrain and Iran, as well as a plurality in Iraq, Kuwait, and Lebanon.

In addition to believing in the authority of the Qur’an and teachings of the Muhammad, Shia believe that his family—the Ahl al-Bayt (the People of the House), including his descendants known as Imams—have special spiritual and political rule over the community[3] and believe that Ali ibn Abi Talib, Muhammad’s cousin and son-in-law, was the first of these Imams and was the rightful successor to Muhammad, and thus reject the legitimacy of the first three Rashidun caliphs.[4]

The use of a female suicide bomber in Iraq by the Sunni against the majority Shia (backed by Iran) during a high religious pilgrimage is not unique, the press is covering this as if this was the first time a female suicide bomber has been used. Females have been used over the past 20 years, the first was in Lebanon by secular members of the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party in Southern Lebanon. It is impossible to pretend that Hezbollah had nothing to do with this given their operational control over that area in the 1980′s. They have occurred also in India, the Tamil Tigers used female suicide bombers to murder Prime Minister Ghandi. They have been used in Chechnya, Turkey (by the PPK), in Israel by the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, and by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s al Qaeda in Iraq. I do see a pattern here, the Iranian funding and training of these groups; that makes this aspect of suicide bombing primarily a Shia operation.

The advantages of using females is that they do not fit into the terrorist ‘profile’ and are often overlooked by security professionals. Modesty is also a factor, women are not searched, or even looked at in Muslim countries as thoroughly as men; women are often allowed to pass freely through the checkpoints. Combine this with a hajib, burqa, and the niqab and what you have is a concealed, invisible smart bomb.  ABC reported “last week alleged that American law-enforcement officials have been told to be on the lookout for female suicide bombers who may attempt to enter the United States. The network quoted one official saying that at least two such women are believed to be connected to Al Qaeda in Yemen and may have a non-Arab appearance and be traveling on Western passports.” The terrorists will never stop, they will continue to find ways to attack us.  Be prepared, In my opinion the next attack will have nothing to do with airplanes. All of the airport/airplane probes are a ruse to keep our attention away from other, now much easier to hit, targets. We can’t watch all of the malls, restaurants, schools, or other soft targets.

If women are used more frequently this means that the masculine chauvinistic Muslim ideals of jihad, martyrdom, and free pass to paradise and its rewards is not holding in the face of increased anti-terrorism efforts and more aggressive searches and profiles. The next step for the terrorists is that once the women are searched and countered, children will be used as suicide bombers next.


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The Obama–CodePink–Hamas–Muslim Brotherhood Connection

by Eliana ( 225 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Blogmocracy, Egypt, Gaza, Hamas, Hezballah, Islamists, Israel, Jihad, Leftist-Islamic Alliance, Media, Progressives at January 20th, 2010 - 10:00 am

In a recent post on The Blogmocracy (Bernardine Dohrn & William Ayers vs Egypt), we discussed Obama pals Bernardine Dohrn & William Ayers and their newest mischief against Israel.

Dohrn and Ayers went to Egypt with “Code Pink” and others to try to stage a march into Gaza to try to force Israel and Egypt to open their borders with Gaza. In Caroline Glick’s article “Code Red on Code Pink,” she described Egypt’s reaction to the group:

Led by Code Pink founder and California Democratic fund-raiser Jodie Evans, the demonstrators were not welcomed by Egyptian authorities. Many were surrounded by riot police and barbed wire as they demonstrated outside the US and French embassies and the UN Development Program’s headquarters.

Bernardine Dorhn blamed Egypt’s response to their campaign as being Israel’s fault, but Caroline Glick describes Egypt’s reaction to this group later in her article:

the Egyptian authorities’ actions were clearly informed by their understanding that, with their ties to Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hizbullah, Syria and Iran, Code Pink and its friends are active collaborators with the jihad war machine.

Code Pink and their friends also have ties to the White House:

Code Pink, for instance, is welcome at the Obama White House. Its leader Evans was an official fund-raiser for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Evans visited the White House after travelling to Gaza last June. While there she met with Hamas leaders who gave her a letter for Obama. Evans met Obama himself at a donor dinner in San Francisco last October where, while standing in front of cameras, she gave him documents she received in Afghanistan, where she met with Taliban officials.

Then, too, among the board members of the Free Gaza movement is former US senator James Abourezk. Abourezk is reputedly close to Obama and according to knowledgeable sources has been a key figure in shaping Obama’s policy towards Israel.

Then, too, like Evans, Dohrn and her husband, Ayres, are also friendly with the president of the United States. Dohrn and Ayres have been Obama’s political patrons since he launched his first campaign for the Illinois state Senate in 1996. In White House visitors’ logs, Ayres is listed as having twice visited the building since Obama’s inauguration.

The text of the letter from Hamas that Code Pink delivered to Obama in June 2009 is here: CODEPINK delivers peace letter from Hamas to Obama

Carl in Jerusalem wrote on his blog on January 13, 2010:

It seems that President Obama’s friends at Code Pink were protected by Hamas in Gaza, and have paid protection money both to Hamas and to Obama.

How deep are the ties between the so-called antiwar group Code Pink and the terrorist group Hamas? Deep enough that Hamas guaranteed Code Pink’s safety when the group led an international delegation of anti-Israel leftists to Gaza in late December for the ‘Gaza Freedom March.’

Code Pink claims to have delivered “tens of thousands of dollars in humanitarian aid” to Hamas-controlled Gaza to protest a blockade of the terrorist enclave by the civilized world.

Before Code Pink departed for Egypt where the march was based, co-founder Medea Benjamin told the Western Massachusetts publication The Reminder that Hamas “has pledged to ensure our safety.”

Code Pink was co-founded by Jodie Evans, a top donor and fundraiser for President Barack Obama. Jodie Evans has maintained close ties with Obama and his administration throughout the first year of Obama’s term in office, including two visits to the White House in June just days after a previous Code Pink trip to Gaza where they were given a letter from Hamas to deliver to Obama….

When the pressure starts from Obama for Israel to negotiate with Hamas, you’ll know where it’s coming from.

As if the ties between Code Pink and friends with Obama’s White House and Hamas weren’t disturbing enough, Code Pink also has ties with the Muslim Brotherhood:

Code Pink To Muslims: ‘Help Us Cleanse Our Country’ by Nancy Morgan

As Americans keep a wary eye on Muslim radicals in Yemen, little attention is being given to a far more dangerous enemy right in our own backyard. Under the banner of ‘anti-war’ activism, the radical group Code Pink is running banner advertisements on the English language version of the official Web site of a terrorist sympathizing group, the Muslim Brotherhood, one of which invites the Muslim Brotherhood to “join us in cleansing our country.”

The ad is entitled ‘Arrest The War Criminals.’ Only problem is, Code Pink believes the war criminals are none other than George W. Bush and Co. And they’re actively recruiting radical Muslim terrorists to help them in their cause.

A link on the ad goes to a web site that actually calls for the kidnapping of former President George W. Bush, his wife Laura, his family, and various former administration officials. To date, not a peep has been heard from the Secret Service.

Maybe that’s because Jodie Evans, the co-founder of Code Pink was a top fundraiser for Barack Obama. Or maybe not.

This isn’t the first time the rabid feminist anti-war group has had amicable ties with terrorists. As Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government reports:

“The Muslim Brotherhood published a statement by Code Pink issued in May to promote Code Pink’s trip to Gaza that month. In December, the Muslim Brotherhood published an open letter to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak by Code Pink and the Gaza Freedom March decrying the Egyptian government’s refusal to allow the group passage into Gaza.”

If you’re under the mistaken impression that the Muslim Brotherhood is a benign member of the ‘religion of peace,’ you might want to get the straight poop from David Horowitz’s Discover the Networks. Here.

Once again, yet another radical group is discovered to have close ties to President Obama. Yawn.

We also have a group of American citizens actively rallying jihadists and encouraging them to commit war crimes. Hey, I can hardly keep my eyes open.

Most alarming however is the absolute media silence.Well, they’re not actually silent. They are otherwise engaged in the life and death debate over how many times Harry Reid should apologize for his sin of speaking the truth about race.

The media ‘watchdogs’ are asleep and the ones we trust to protect us are instead offering aid and comfort to our enemies when they’re not prosecuting Navy Seals, CIA officials and anyone else whose job is to keep America safe. What’s wrong with this picture?

Kudo’s to The Jawa Report for being the first to report on this situation. Hopefully they won’t be the last.

So there are ties (including financial ties) between the President of the United States Barack Obama and a radical left wing group (Code Pink) that pays protection money to Hamas and delivers letters from Hamas directly to the White House WHILE ALSO rallying and encouraging jihadists to commit war crimes against former President of the United States George W. Bush, his family, and various former administration officials.

Code Pink does all this as part of Code Pink’s virulent anti-America and anti-Israel agenda.

What’s wrong with this picture, indeed?

(Hat Tip: WrathofG-d)

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Terrorist Profiles. Who are these guys?

by coldwarrior ( 196 Comments › )
Filed under Terrorism at January 10th, 2010 - 3:30 pm

Since the early 1980′s yours truly has been interested in the people who become terrorists. The interest became sort of a job after being posted in West Berlin in the Army. The interest is not so dramatic that it was a matter of survival, it was just curiosity at first, then a sort of fascination and part of a job later. The city had already seen LaBelle Disco Bombing, West Germany had seen numerous activity by Baader-Meinhoff, and the Islamic Terrorists were beginning to get their act together to go after the US. I was fortunate enough, because of my assignment to get a lot of good info and briefings on all these terrorists. The studies continued through college to this day.

So the first question is what is terrorism? The answer is not the flippant response that ‘one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter’. I always loathed that quote for its lack of reasoning and over-simplicity. The problem is that the definition of terrorism is very slippery. IIRC, there were over 100 definitions, all had this aspect in common: the use of or the threat of the use of violence. The most succinct that I recall is Sajid Dawar’s, “The act or threat of violence by any individual, group, organization aimed at to secure predetermined ends through illegal channels.” Yes it technically can include silliness like bar fights, so lets combine the previous with Walter Laqueur’s definition, “Terrorism constitutes the illegitimate use of force to achieve a political objective when innocent people are targeted.”

The second question is who are the terrorists? There is an adage in development studies that says that if a man is busy all day trying to feed himself and his family, he has no time to get angry and act out over politics. The uneducated dirt farmer or Bedouin that works sun up to sun down has not time nor energy nor thought to pick up the gun and strike a blow against some unseen and undefined oppressor.

So, who has the surplus energy and the surplus time for the education education necessary to first know why they are angry, and second who the target is? That would be the middle and upper middle classes, this transcends causes and religions. Yes, I know I sound like a Marxists, bear with me. They are driven by hate, not by psychological problems. The hate comes from self loathing of the comfortable situation that they came from in relation to the ‘injustices’ they see all around them.

As THE expert on terrorism psychology (and one of my favorite reads) Jerold Post, MD, has stated: “To counter terrorism, we must get into the mind of the terrorists, and that mind is distinctly not deranged,” Post said. He said terrorist groups systematically work to screen out emotionally unstable people when recruiting because they pose a significant security risk. Instead, Post argues that terrorism is the product of collective identity, shaped over years, as children are indoctrinated with a message of hatred, either from community leaders or religious radicals whose interpretations of scripture are rejected by the vast majority of the population. “One has to understand the perpetrators of this violence — within their own cultural context — and communicate with those not yet fully committed before their identity is consolidated,” Post said

A simple search will turn up the same backgrounds for terrorists, Carlos was the son of a lawyer, the core of Baader-Meinhof Gang, Ulrike Meinhoff could quote Gramsci and Marcuse and was a journalist. The founders of the Red Brigades in Italy were all college students from upper middle classes. The core of the Japanese Red Army were all college students at one time, their families could afford to sent them to school. All spoke of the injustices that they saw and espoused violent overthrow of those systems in which they could have been very comfortable. The poor aren’t the terrorists. If we look at the profiles of the 9/11 terrorists, we find that they all came from above average homes, were nicely educated, and had the mental wherewithal to go to flight school. A look at the leaders of Al-Queda tells the same story. They range from Doctors to Nuclear Engineers.

This latest underwear bomber from Nigeria via Yemen and the
coverage of his family reminded me of some old papers that I wrote a while back. I was not surprised by the press’s astonishment that the bomber came from an upper-class background. I was saddened, yet again, at the all idiot journalism majors and meat sticks with nice hair blathering from the teleprompter about how could a nice boy from such a wealthy family become a terrorist? Terrorists come from wealth, this has been the case practically always.

This is where national security runs into an immigrant conundrum. Its easy to identify an opposing soldier, but very hard to identify a terrorist. The manual laborer isn’t the one flying airplanes into buildings, the college educated immigrant is. But, we want to bring the worlds talent in to grow our country, but that talent might have a price. And what of the press in this last episode….they seemed racists in their astonishment at the luxury of the compound where the gutchie bomber grew up. I will bet they wouldn’t be so surprised if he weren’t a black African.

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Death by Political Correctness

by tqcincinnatus ( 301 Comments › )
Filed under Islamic Terrorism, Islamists, Jihad, Liberal Fascism, Political Correctness, Progressives at November 11th, 2009 - 4:32 pm

The right wing fanatic at Renew America responds to the Fort Hood shooting and to the trend of political correctness in general, and boy is he ticked,

Even beyond these examples, however, we see that political correctness has emerged, especially in the years following 9-11, as a deadly threat to Americans. How? By the fact that it hampers us from being able to defend ourselves against the existential threat to America posed by radical Muslim terrorists. Far from waking up and getting serious about dealing with the threat of Islamofascist terrorists, America has largely followed a course of politically correct head-in-the-sand relativism towards the people who would like nothing more than to destroy America and behead any who don’t convert to their particular version of lunar idolatry. Even in the midst of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — ostensibly being fought to destroy foreign supporters of terrorism — Bush was telling us “Islam is a peaceful religion.” The FBI — the people who are supposed to be investigating and stopping acts of terrorism on American soil — have relied upon the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a group with high-ranking members who are known to have supported terrorist organizations, to train its field agents in “sensitivity.” The new watchword of the PC thugs is “Islamophobia,” which can be defined as “a willingness to speak the truth about the ugly aspects of Islam.”

So we see the PC infection having deadly results at Fort Hood, in Texas, where a Muslim terrorist masquerading as a U.S. Army Major ambushed and killed 12 unarmed American soldiers, and wounded 30 others. But wait — we can’t call it terrorism. Instead of calling a spade a spade, the news media concoct all kinds of stories to explain why Major Nidal Malik Hasan would have gone on his shooting rampage. Perhaps it was post-traumatic stress disorder — except that he had never been in combat. Maybe he just empathized with the soldiers with PTSD that he was counseling and broke from the stress — except that he reportedly spent many a counseling session berating them for participating in “the war against Islam” instead of trying to help them through their psychological difficulties. Perchance Maj. Hasan is really the victim here, since at one point several years ago, some guy in his apartment complex allegedly tore a pro-jihad bumper sticker off his car and keyed it? Sure, since we all know that a shooting spree is the entirely appropriate response to a stolen bumper sticker and a keyed car. One thing that the media and the commentators and apparently the President of the United States himself are all agreed on is that we can’t “jump to conclusions” that radical Islamic beliefs had anything to do with a guy shouting “Allah Akbar” while shooting unarmed people.

Read the whole thing!

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Leader Of Islamic Group Killed In Raid…in Detroit

by tqcincinnatus ( 309 Comments › )
Filed under Islamic Terrorism, Islamists, Jihad, Terrorism at October 28th, 2009 - 5:30 pm

The leader of an Islamofascist terrorist cell in Detroit whose goal is to establish an Islamic state inside the United States was shot and killed when he fired at FBI agents during a raid this afternoon.  Unfortunately, an FBI police dog was also shot and killed (hat tip – garycooper),

The Detroit leader of a nationwide fundamentalist Islamic group was fatally shot during a series of FBI raids Wednesday afternoon.

The FBI arrested 10 people who have ties to the group called the Ummah, which translates to “the brotherhood.”

The group’s primary mission is to establish a separate sovereign Islamic state governed by Sunni law, according to FBI charging documents. Luqman Ameen Abdullah, 53, called his followers to an offensive jihad, rather than a defensive jihad.

During the raid, Abdullah, aka Christopher Thomas, fired his weapon, said the FBI in a release. An FBI police dog was shot during the gunfire.

The dog was transported via helicopter to an animal hospital in Madison Heights, but despite the rescue efforts, the dog died.

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The nationwide leader is believed to be Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rapp Brown. He is currently serving a life sentence in prison for the murder of two police officers in Georgia.

Abdullah Al-Amin preaches violence against law enforcement officials and has trained members of the Ummah inside of a mosque located on Joy Road how to use firearms, martial arts, sword fighting and other types of self defense in anticipation of government violence, according to the FBI.

Undercover agents in the organization have told the FBI that Abdullah used to discipline its members starting at an early age by beating them with sticks on their hands, knees and legs and once he beat a little boy so badly that the child was unable to walk for several days.

In October of 2008, a source the FBI called “credible” recorded statements by Abdullah at a mosque during prayer where he said that Muslims need to cut ties with Christians, Jews, and Kuffars, which the FBI said means all non-muslims.

“Obama is a Kafir. McCain is a Kafir, all the rest of them Kuffars, are Kuffars…. The worst Muslim is better than the best Kafir,” said FBI documents. 

It’s a shame about the FBI dog, but at least no humans were hurt.

The story notes that these guys are converts who took the plunge while in prison.  I don’t know about you, but this sort of shakes my boundless confidence in the peacefulness and tolerance of Islam. 

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Najibullah Zazi Indicted For Conspiring To Detonate WMD In U.S.

by WrathofG-d ( 97 Comments › )
Filed under Islamic Terrorism, Islamists, Jihad, Terrorism at September 24th, 2009 - 11:55 am

Our enemy is determined, and patient.  Any success in the War on Terror so far should not be used as an excuse to think that it has disappeared, or for us to otherwise rest on our laurels.  Although we might have taken our eye off the Terrorism ball as a Country, our enemy has been steady working on accomplishing their goals to detonate a W.M.D. in our Country, and murder our citizens!

Najibullah Zazi, the Denver man believed to be the central figure in a terror plot against the New York City transit system, has officially been indicted on charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction against persons or property in the United States, CBS 2 has learned.

Zazi was scheduled to appear in court on Thursday in Denver on a count of lying to terrorism investigators. T he new charge of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction was filed in New York City, and authorities plan to transfer him to the federal court in Brooklyn to face the new charges.

Zazi has publicly denied making any terrorist plots.  Counter-terrorist agents fear he and others may have been planning to detonate homemade bombs on New York City commuter trains. Zazi’s father and the Queens Imam Ahmad Afzali were also charged with lying to investigators in the case.

According to the Department of Justice, a federal grand jury in Brooklyn returned a one-count indictment alleging that between Aug. 1, 2008 and Sept. 21, 2009, Zazi knowingly and intentionally conspired with others to use one or more weapons of mass destruction, specifically explosive bombs and other similar explosive devices, against persons or property within the United States. The indictment also alleges that Zazi and others traveled in interstate and foreign commerce, used email and the Internet, and that this offense and the results of the offense would have affected interstate and foreign commerce.

“We believe any imminent threat arising from this case has been disrupted, but as always, we remind the American public to be vigilant and to report any suspicious activity to law enforcement,” he added.

According to a detention motion filed, “Zazi received detailed bomb-making instructions in Pakistan, purchased components of improvised explosive devices, and traveled to New York City on September 10, 2009 in furtherance of his criminal plans.”

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The present absence of bloodshed on our streets is not peace, and our enemy remains committed to Jihad and the destruction of the United States.

We dodged a bullet here – thank G-d!

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Homegrown Jihad – Robert Spencer’s Column in Human Events

by tqcincinnatus ( 12 Comments › )
Filed under Islamic Terrorism, Islamists, Jihad at June 9th, 2009 - 4:03 pm

Great discussion of the Arkansas jihadi by Robert Spencer today. 

Violent jihad returned to America last week. In a story that got little notice amid the flood of features on the murder of abortionist George Tiller, an American Muslim named Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad murdered Private William Long and gravely wounded Private Quinton Ezeagwula outside the Army-Navy Career Center in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Deputy Prosecutor Scott Duncan said that Muhammad openly admitted that he “would have killed more soldiers had they been in the parking lot.

Carlos Leon “Corey” Bledsoe changed his name to Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad after he converted to Islam in 2004. He then went to Yemen hoping to study with a jihadist imam, apparently traveling to Yemen on a passport from another flashpoint of the global jihad, Somalia.

When he returned to the U.S. from Yemen, the Joint Terrorism Task Force began to investigate him. Muhammad apparently had plans for a jihad larger than one that involved simply shooting up a military recruiting center: on his computer were maps to Jewish organizations and a Baptist church, as well as to a child care center, a post office and other military recruiting centers.

Investigators are now looking into evidence that before Muhammad went to Yemen, he lived for awhile in Columbus, Ohio, where he apparently attended a mosque that has a noteworthy number of connections to Muslims behaving badly. Investigative journalist Patrick Poole identifies the mosque as Masjid Omar Ibn El Khattab, where Somali immigrant Nuradin Abdi worshiped before he was sentenced to ten years in prison in November 2007 for plotting, along with two other members of Masjid Omar, to blow up a shopping mall in Ohio.

One was Abdulmalek Kenyatta, a.k.a. Christopher Paul — another worshiper and, says Poole, “longtime martial arts instructor” at the Masjid Omar — who pled guilty in 2008 to joining Al-Qaeda and plotting to blow up tourist resorts and military bases. Back in 2002, Kenyatta and Abdi discussed the shopping mall plot with a third member of Masjid Omar, Iyman Faris, who is now doing twenty years for his part in an Al-Qaeda plot to take down the Brooklyn Bridge with bombs…..

Great article, read the whole thing!  It’s good to see that at least some  major bloggers whose blogs are supposed to be about Islam and the Middle East are staying on task. 

And a question comes to mind: how come churches and synagogues don’t have on-staff martial arts instructors?

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Al-Qaeda using Hip Hop to promote Jihad

by Rodan ( 21 Comments › )
Filed under Al Qaeda, Islamic Supremacism, Music, Sharia (Islamic Law) at May 5th, 2009 - 6:10 pm

As a Hip Hop fan and former DJ, I find this twisted. Al-Qaqeda is doing this to influence young people to make Islam look cool. It is an American who did this video for Al-Qaeda to brainwash the youth.

Al Qaeda exporting jihad with a hip-hop vibe

LONDON (CNN) — The latest video from Somalia’s al Qaeda-backed Al-Shabaab wing is as slickly produced as a reality TV show but with a startling message — complete with a hip-hop jihad vibe.

Mortar by mortar, shell by shell, only going to stop when I send them to hell,” the unidentified voice raps on the video, which runs at least 18 minutes.

The video also shows a man reported to be Abu Mansoor al-Amriki, dubbed “The American” by al Qaeda. He apparently is now in Somalia training and counseling Somalis from North America and Europe. He speaks in American English.

The reason young people might fall for this is because or education system isn’t good. Our History Classes don’t teach the truth about Islam. This is a disturbing fan that the music I love is being used to promote Islamo-Fascists.

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Disco Dudes attack part 3

by bar ( 36 Comments › )
Filed under Evolution, Free Speech, LGF at February 24th, 2009 - 2:40 pm

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The Strange Case of Little Green Footballs III

As I mentioned in previous posts in this brief series, the ID-bashing blog Little Green Footballs has done important work in sensitizing us to the sympathies expressed in parts of the Muslim world for Hitler and Nazism. One of the most sickening videos I’ve ever seen was noted recently on LGF. It was of a smiling, youngish Egyptian cleric in front of a slick TV backdrop, praising the Nazis for slaughtering Jews and saying he only hoped it would be Muslims who do this work, blessed by Allah, next time around. On an inset screen, the cleric nodded and gestured approvingly to old black-and-white newsreels from the death camps, of Jewish corpses being bulldozed, or pulled out of ovens as smoking skeletons.

LGF author Charles Johnson is troubled by the weakness of Western leaders who don’t want to see what we are up against in the war on terror, who shrink from a strong and confident stance in dealing with challenges from the Muslim world. However, Johnson never makes the connection between the Darwinism he defends and the sapping of Western confidence that he laments.

This may seem surprising to those who are familiar with the history of 19th-century colonialism. Darwinian theory fueled an arrogant contempt for other nations that seems the very opposite of liberal guilt and weakness. It was not some sort of “crude” distortion of Darwin’s thought but a straightforward application of it that led to the biologization of foreign policy in the age of imperialism.

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So it goes, too, in the rest of the Western world. It’s no wonder that the most highly secularized nations—those in Western Europe—also have the hardest time explaining why they have a right to defend their own historically Christian cultures from the fundamentalist Muslim culture that—and here we return to LGF—blogger Charles Johnson regards with understandable anxiety and dismay.

Yet if Johnson and like-minded conservatives had their way on the evolution issue, basically banishing challenges to Darwinism from public life, they might well succeed only in hastening the very fate—the West’s increasing capitulation to terror—that they otherwise so earnestly and effectively warn us against.

 

Previously Featured & Related Threads: Happy Birthday DarwinStrange Bedfellows: Evolution & Communism,  Charles Denies The Link Between Darwinism & Nazism, The Strange Case of Little Green Footballs 1

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